The film itself clocks in at 2 1/2 hours, which — along with its Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival — makes this subtitled police procedural from Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan the anti-"CSI." However, by multiple accounts it's worth the investment.

In the dead of night, a group of men – among them a police commissioner, a prosecutor, a doctor and a murder suspect – drive through the Anatolian countryside, the serpentine roads and rolling hills lit only by the headlights of their cars. They are searching for a corpse, the victim of a brutal murder. The suspect, who claims he was drunk, can’t remember where he buried the body. As night wears on, details about the murder begin to emerge and the investigators’ own hidden secrets come to light. In the Anatolian steppes, nothing is what it seems; and when the body is found, the real questions begin.